Victor Petrovich Telpugov. He was born in Moscow in 1917. Here he spent his childhood and youth, studied, and went to the front from here. An ordinary soldier-paratrooper took part in the fight against fascism. After the war, V. Telpugov worked as a Komsomol in the Central Committee of the Komsomol, in the publishing house Molodaya Gvardiya, in the editorial office of Komsomolskaya Pravda. The first book of stories was called "Cranes over Moscow" (1961). It was followed by others - "Night Lights", "Russian Street", "Mozhaisky Ice", "Morse Code", "Gray in Apples", "Wooden Boat", "Stubborn Lamp". In 1968 the first story of V. Telpugov - "Parachutists" was published, in 1972 the continuation of "Parachutists" - the story "All in Place!" In theseVictor Petrovich Telpugov. He was born in Moscow in 1917. Here he spent his childhood and youth, studied, and went to the front from here. An ordinary soldier-paratrooper took part in the fight against fascism. After the war, V. Telpugov worked as a Komsomol in the Central Committee of the Komsomol, in the publishing house Molodaya Gvardiya, in the editorial office of Komsomolskaya Pravda. The first book of stories was called "Cranes over Moscow" (1961). It was followed by others - "Night Lights", "Russian Street", "Mozhaisky Ice", "Morse Code", "Gray in Apples", "Wooden Boat", "Stubborn Lamp". In 1968 the first story of V. Telpugov - "Parachutists" was published, in 1972 the continuation of "Parachutists" - the story "All in Place!" In these works, as in many of V. Telpugov's stories, the main character is the courage shown by Soviet people in the war. Viktor Petrovich Telpugov is one of the brightest representatives of a bygone era. Many shocks and trials fell to his lot, the main of which was the Great Patriotic War, which became the leading theme of his work. Viktor Petrovich dreamed of becoming a poet and, while working at the plant, he studied in absentia at the Literary Institute together with Simonov, Mikhailov, Yashin ... But life made its own adjustments, and in the fall of 1940 Telpugov was drafted into the army and ended up in an airborne brigade in Belarus, nearby from the border. It was there that Viktor Petrovich met the war ... Honestly gone through the whole war and written off from the military register for wounds, after the war he again went to work as a turner, was a correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda, and as a result of his service career he took the post of head of the department of creativity in Literary Institute named after A.M. Gorky. His book "Paratroopers", one of the books of the trilogy dedicated to the paratrooper Sergei Slobodkin ("Paratroopers", "All in Place!" And "Wormwood in the Snow"), truthfully and without excessive pathos shows the reality of war, front-line everyday life, and the heroism of ordinary people.